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Gmail goes arty
So I pressed refresh on my gmail browser tab the other day and up popped a notification for a new feature, themes!
I had a browse and then selected the space theme, or something of that nature. The theme I had selected was quite cheesy and it reminded of me using Encarta 96 (There’s a blast from the past!).
What annoyed me slightly was the fact that it was hard to navigate my way around the menu and change the theme back to something that I liked. It’s quite easy to change themes once you locate where the theme settings are (on the settings page, themes tab), however, this isn’t very clear initially.
Gmail is quite Ajax heavy therefore an extra dialogue above the inbox to confirm theme selection would be ideal and it would improve over all usability.
I found the themes themselves to be quite mediocre, may be Google should open up theme development to the open source community like firefox/mozilla have.